vscode: Endless CPU and memory occur in "node" when a symlink to / exists in the workspace

VS Code Version: 1.55.2 and the today’s Insiders.
OS Version: Ubuntu 20 (via WSL2).

Steps to Reproduce:

Go to some folder via the command line.
ln -s / ./test1
Open the folder in VS Code (i.e. the folder should have a symlink to the root named test1).

Bug: Node starts using 200% CPU and memory keeps increasing (slowly). Even adding test1 to files.exclude doesn’t work. Using the Toggle Developer Tools->Performance logging shows no CPU usage.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 22 (22 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I didn’t see any endless loops. I thought I saw a noticeable CPU uptick but measuring again today I cannot confirm that. So all is fine.

aeschli on Oct 28, 2021

Yes, no polling, “remote.WSL.fileWatcher.polling”: false

sean-mcmanus on Oct 7, 2021